David Evan Jones (composer)

David Evan Jones (born 1946) is an American pianist and composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music. Jones was a student of composers Roger Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros at University of California, San Diego. After serving as Composer-in-Residence at York University (England), he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in the 1980s before becoming professor of music at University of California, Santa Cruz. Jones has composed in residence at IRCAM in Paris, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, and at Bregman Electronic Music Studio at Dartmouth College where he co-founded, with Jon Appleton, the Dartmouth graduate program in Electro-Acoustic Music. Works Jones has written articles and created compositions that explore structural relationships between music and phonetics. These include compositions such as Pashanti—The Nine Billion Names of God, Scritto, Still Life in Wood and Metal, Still Life Dancing, and the five pieces featured on Centaur Records CRC3500 entitled News from Afar. He has also written libretti and music for two chamber operas. Bardos, the most prominent of these, had its professional premier in 2004 in Hoam Hall, Seoul, Korea. Jones also